49ers bring college bowl to Santa Clara

The San Francisco 49ers' new Santa Clara stadium may be under construction for National Football League games, but according to CBS sports, the $1.2 billion venue will also host a post-season college bowl game in 2014.

According to CBS, the stadium will host the 2014 Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl, a post-season game for the best teams in the PAC-12 division of college football and the U.S. Naval Academy.

The bowl game is currently held at AT&T Park – the home field for Major League Baseball’s San Francisco Giants – and generates about $130 million in economic impact for the city annually.

The team will also hold a press conference at 2 p.m. Tuesday to announce this “first non-NFL event” at the new stadium.

Stadium officials are wasting no time booking events at the new stadium. The 68,500-seat venue should open during the fall of 2014 for the NFL season.